A Study of History

Name: A Study of History
Author: Arnold Toynbee

by Arnold Toynbee

Monumental historical study of civilizations, their rise, decline, and patterns

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Arnold Toynbee

Toynbee's twelve-volume A Study of History was the most ambitious attempt to identify the patterns of civilizational rise and fall in the 20th century. Though later historians questioned his methodology, it remains a monument of speculative philosophy of history.

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